Posted on 08/23/2011 7:15:36 PM PDT by PROCON
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Soon after the lunch plates stopped rattling and books stopped thumping to the floor, shaken easterners could hear another sound from Tuesday's magnitude-5.8 quake: snickering emanating from the opposite side of the continent. "Really all this excitement over a 5.8 quake??? Come on East Coast, we have those for breakfast out here!!!!" wrote Dennis Miller, 50, a lifelong California resident whose house in Pleasanton sits on an earthquake fault line.
On Twitter and Facebook and over email, people circulated a photo of a table and four plastic lawn chairs in a serene garden setting. One of the chairs flipped on its back. The mock image carried the title "DC Earthquake Devastation."
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We keep our snow on the mountains with far more than two feet.
Seriously, though look at the USGS shake map here. It was something I'll bet, by anybody's standards:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/se/082311a/us/index.html
Really??? How about a good ole Cat 3 Hurricane to liven the place up out there?
Actually, we have the highest mountain range in the lower 48...the Sierra Nevadas. A foot of snow is more like a light dusting up in the Sierras. Los Angeles is ringed by mountains where heavy snow is commonplace many (but not all) winters.
As for the earthquake back east, everyone I know laughed about the hysteria. My shift starts at 2:00pm. I turned on Sean Hannity on my way to work, and he was all agog over the earthquake. I laughed all the way to work. Especially since easterners are fond of mocking California, saying we're going to fall into the sea, blah, blah, blah. Seems to me a whole lot of easterners were like a bunch of wusses and pansies today, hahahaha.
No, I'm not. My daughter works in a building made completely out of glass. It's the largest glass museum in the world. They felt the quake today. Image all that glass shattering and raining down on her and all the tourists that visit there. It wasn't funny. Those people were terrified, and so was I.
I will admit to sneering myself.
5.8? Meh... I sleep through those.
I’m feeling really left out.
Places around me are highlighted on the shake map.
As for me... Nada, zilch, nothing. I got bupkiss here...
September 10–September 11, 1976: Hurricane Kathleen crossed the peninsula of Baja California moved into California as a tropical storm. Yuma, Arizona reported sustained winds of 91 km/h (57 mph). Rains from Kathleen caused catastrophic damage to Ocotillo, California and killed three to six people.
August 18–August 19, 1977: Hurricane Doreen dissipated off the coast of California. The remnants moved inland and caused flooding and crop damage as 7.01 inches (178 mm) of rain fell on Yuma Valley, Arizona.
September 25–September 26, 1997: After making landfall in Baja California, Hurricane Nora maintained tropical storm status into California and Arizona. Moderate to heavy rains fell across southeast California and Arizona, with a new 24-hour maximum for Arizona 305 mm (12 inches) falling in the Mogollon Rim. Damage totaled several hundred million, including US$40 million to lemon trees. There were a few indirect deaths caused by the hurricane.
P.S. our annual rainfall avg is 3.01 inches per year.
We are really used to quakes here.
Baseball team - Quakes.
Stadium - Epicenter
Team mascots - Tremor and Aftershock.
You can have my next one if it will make you feel better. Frankly I don’t like ‘em.
“We’ve had ‘em in my neighborhood.
September 10–September 11, 1976: Hurricane Kathleen crossed the peninsula of Baja California moved into California as a tropical storm. Yuma, Arizona reported sustained winds of 91 km/h (57 mph). Rains from Kathleen caused catastrophic damage to Ocotillo, California and killed three to six people.
August 18–August 19, 1977: Hurricane Doreen dissipated off the coast of California. The remnants moved inland and caused flooding and crop damage as 7.01 inches (178 mm) of rain fell on Yuma Valley, Arizona.
September 25–September 26, 1997: After making landfall in Baja California, Hurricane Nora maintained tropical storm status into California and Arizona. Moderate to heavy rains fell across southeast California and Arizona, with a new 24-hour maximum for Arizona 305 mm (12 inches) falling in the Mogollon Rim. Damage totaled several hundred million, including US$40 million to lemon trees. There were a few indirect deaths caused by the hurricane.
P.S. our annual rainfall avg is 3.01 inches per year.”
Thanks for the info ,we are in So Florida and the weather can get Bumpy,BTW I hope you get a pass on these the next time.
I did think it was a bit silly of ABC Radio News to keep talking about the quake every hour on the hour. They only mentioned the 6.6 quake we had here a few years ago one time, and oh yeah, we get 50 feet of snow here every Winter.
My only experience with an earthquake was a dozen years ago in a Tokyo hotel, when the room was jolted by a short, sharp shock.
I’m sure that this one was much more unsettling to those who felt it. My business partner in New Jersey called me when it hit, asking me to check online what had just happened, and she was clearly unnerved by it.
I went through a 9.0 back in March. Both the East coast and West coast, and the rest of the world can kiss my ass now. I’m snicker-proof until I die. ;)
Yah, we Alaskans were kind of chuckling, too. I don’t even wake up if it’s under 6.0. LOL!
You and me both, Kemosabe.
And when you coming for chess again?
LOL! Here, we get BOTH! (Please do not ask me why I live up here...)
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